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Books on Attachment and AdoptionAttachment issues in adoption. |
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Nurturing Adoptions - Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma By Deborah D. Gray "Nurturing Adoptions is a guide for social workers and psychologists who provide therapy for adopted children and teens suffering from neglect, trauma, or abuse. Dr. Gray delves into the myriad ways that children can be affected by adverse circumstances - biological, psychological, behavioral, and even moral. She teaches ways to find the child's point of view, and key points of stress, and to help re-frame their awareness and behavior into a more positive and adaptive structure, ultimately leading to more balanced and fruitful lives. This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in attachment and older child adoption. This is a gold mine of information for the adoption world, for parents and professionals. " (Allison Martin) Read My Full Review || Order Book from Amazon |
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The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family |
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Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents |
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1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 |
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Adoption in the United States: A Reference for Families, Professionals,
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The Essential Link: Attachment Information for Adoptive Parents |
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Becoming a Family: Promoting Healthy Attachments with Your Adopted
Child (Hardcover) by Lark Eshleman From the publisher: This book will help parents identify severe problems before the adoption, significantly reduce the risk of future difficulty, improve the damage already done to the child's otherwise normal, healthy development, and dramatically help enfold the child into a family ready to give love, security, and a new life. Order Book from Amazon |
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Parenting Your Older Adopted Child By Brenda McCreight "If you are considering adopting an older child, then Parenting Your Adopted Older Child provides a nice overview of issues that older child adoption may bring to your family. Author Brenda McCreight has a wealth of experience to bring to this topic and she shares her knowledge and practical solutions in an organized and enthusiastic manner.." (Allison Martin) Read My Review || Order Book from Amazon |
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Toddler Adoption By Mary Hopkins-Best "For first time parents, the book "Toddler Adoption" provides a thorough overview of the childhood stage of one to three year old children and the challenges and joys of the adoption of a toddler." (Allison Martin) Read My Review || Order Book from Amazon |
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Connecting With Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives To Facilitate
Attachment In Adopted Children by Denise Lacher, Todd Nichols, Joanne May "This variation on Narrative Therapy explains how to create stories to help explain birth family and pre-placement situations to children in a third-person style, using animals in place of main characters. Children may start out seeing it as just a stony and it may take some time to realize it is really their own story or they may recognize themselves right away. Parents can create the story themselves, or involve the child by asking what animal he and other members of the family might be, and use those animals as central characters in the story. Over time, the story can evolve to include more details and additional ideas from the child." (R.D.) Order Book from Amazon |
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Our Own - Adopting and Parenting the Older Child By Trish Maskew "It should be required reading for anyone who is considering adopting an older child." (Susan Hall) Read My Review || Interview with the Author || Order Book from Amazon |
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Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
by Gregory Keck, Regina M. Kupecky "Written for domestic special needs adoption, much of the information applies to adopting older children internationally, including grief, loss and attachment issues. Includes an excellent description of Reactive Attachment Disorder and behaviors (mild and extreme) that relate to each facet of RAD." (Adoption Advocates International) "Keck is a well-known attachment therapist. His book (the newest edition) also has a chapter on international adoption." (Jennifer S.) Order Book from Amazon |
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Broken Spirits Lost Souls: Loving Children With Attachment and Bonding
Difficulties by Jane E. Ryan "Personal stories of children with RAD with practical advice for coping on a daily basis." (R.D.) Order Book from Amazon |
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Real Parents Real Children by Holly Van Gulden "Designed to help parents and professionals better understand why children of each age think and feel the way they do about being adopted. Some of the specific issues addressed include helping adopted children who struggle with identity, grief for birth parents, and building healthy bonds and attachment with the adoptive family." (Adoption Advocates International) Order Book from Amazon |
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Can This Child Be Saved? Solutions For Adoptive and Foster Families by Foster W. Cline and Cathy Helding "Examines causes behind behaviors, suggests reasons why conventional strategies may fail, and gives some parenting techniques and therapeutic approaches that can succeed with disturbed children." (R.D.) Order Book via Amazon (Out of Print) |
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Help for the Hopeless Child: A Guide for Families (With Special Discussion
for Assessing and Treating the Post-Institutionalized Child) by Ronald S. Federici "Must-have handbook for families adopting from Eastern Europe but still helpful and insightful for any adoptive parent." (Adoption Advocates International) Order Book from Amazon |
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When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD by Nancy L. Thomas "Nancy Thomas has parented severely emotionally disturbed children and shares tools for parenting with love those children who don't know how to live in a family." (Adoption Advocates International) Order Book from Amazon |
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Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled
Children by Daniel A. Hughes "Another therapist's approach to attachment issues." (Adoption Advocates International) Order Book from Amazon |
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Creating Ceremonies : Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges by Cheryl A. Lieberman and Rhea K. Bufferd "A guide to producing and enacting family scripts which mark key transitions in adoption for school age children. These ceremonies are a way to acknowledge the loss of transitions, even in happy situations, and provide a hopeful context to acknowledge the changing circumstances." (Allison Martin) Read My Review | Interview with Authors | Order Book from Amazon |
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Becoming Attached, First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity
to Love By Robert Karen "For those parents who anticipate potential problems, or those who are encountering problems now, I recommend it highly!" (Ann Lamar) Read My Review || Order Book from Amazon |
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Adopting the Older Child by Claudia L. Jewett "A half-dozen composite portraits of children journeying through the American foster-care system with valuable information about the tough issues faced by those children. Some of these issues may also be seen in international adoption." (Adoption Advocates International) Order Book from Amazon |
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